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18 d’abr. 2018

TEXT: Torrent letter to Llarena EN

From the Rt. Hon. Speaker of the Parliament of Catalonia, Roger Torrent, to the Supreme Court investigating judge Pablo Llarena.

Your Most Excellent Sir,

I am informing you that I have
nominated Jordi Sànchez i Picanyol MP as a candidate to be invested
as president of the Generalitat of Catalunya, and that I have
convened the investiture debate for Friday, April 13, at 10 o'clock
in the morning. I enclose a copy of the resolutions.

Jordi Sànchez i Picanyol is a member
of the Parliament of Catalonia and is in custody, but precautionary
measures cannot be used to limit the legitimate exercise of his
political rights.

Preventive custody cannot entail the
deprivation of the right to passive suffrage, which necessarily
includes the right to be elected president of the Generalitat of
Catalonia if a parliamentary majority so decides.

The Human Rights Committee of the
United Nations has made a statement to that effect in its recent
resolution of March 23, 2018, in which it grants the Deputy Jordi
Sànchez the precautionary measures requested in his claim dated
March 21, 2018. In that claim, Jordi Sànchez reports a violation of
article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, having been denied the right to attend an investiture debate.

The granting of precautionary measures
by the United Nations Human Rights Committee places an obligation on
all the powers of the State to ensure results, and requires the
necessary mechanisms to be put in place so that Jordi Sànchez MP can
submit his candidacy in the investiture debate.

Should the Supreme Court, as the State
power affected by the Human Rights Committee, not comply with this
resolution, irreparable damage to the political rights of Jordi
Sànchez MP would result, and the Spanish State would be breaching
its international commitments which, in accordance with articles 10.2
and 96 of the Spanish Constitution, also have to be guaranteed by the
judiciary.

I am sure that you will take the
necessary measures so that Jordi Sànchez MP can submit his candidacy
in the investiture debate convened for Friday, April 13, in the
Parliament of Catalonia, and I would like to send you a warm
greeting.